On the minimization of multinomial tails and the Gupta-Nagel conjecture

DOI10.1016/J.JMVA.2004.10.010MaRDI QIDQ557990zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tommaso Gastaldi

Publication date 30 June 2005

Published in Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2004.10.010

zbMATH Keywords

Best selectionIndifference-zone selectionLower tailMultinomial coefficientsMultinomial distributionPartitions of integerPascal triangleSchur-convex functionsSubset selectiontables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Statistical ranking and selection procedures (62F07) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05)

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